#imitations

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #imagination #limitations #imagination

What he'd do, he'd never go out to the length of the chain. He'd never even get out to where the chain got tight. Even if the mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. Nothing outside of that area right there interested him. He just had zero interest. So he never noticed the chain. He didn't hate it. The chain. He just up and made it not relevant. maybe he wasn't pretending--maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All of his life on that chain. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#imposed-boundaries #limitations #life

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#based #body #dwells #expectations #limitations

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#ever #face #gave #i #life

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#any #damaging #deliberately #did #distorting

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#handicapped #limitations #may #stupidity #thus

Your limitations create your sound. ↗

— Norah Jones

#limitations #sound #your

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice. ↗

— Origen

#endowed #every #involved #justice #know

People mistake their limitations for high standards. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#high standards #limitations #mistake #people #standards

The new limitations are the human ones of perception. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

#limitations #new #ones #perception